Marie Colvin

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Amid the tributes and war stories that followed the brutal beheading of James Foley this week, one memory from a fellow hostage shone a light on a side of his character that his audience might not have seen: his empathy not only for the people he covered but also for the journalists he encountered.

They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news.
By María Salazar-Ferro

Journalists Bryn Karcha, center, of Canada, and Toshifumi Fujimoto, right, of Japan, run for cover with an unidentified fixer in Aleppo's district of Salaheddine on December 29, 2012. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)

New York, December 10, 2013--The Committee
to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of two Spanish
journalists who were abducted in Syria almost three months ago. Javier Espinosa
and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been held captive by the Al-Qaeda affiliate
Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) since September 16, the families of the
journalists announced today.

New
York, February 25, 2013--A French freelance photographer died in a Turkish
hospital on Sunday from shrapnel wounds he received while covering the unrest
in Syria's Idlib province three days earlier, according to news reports.

Olivier
Voisin, 38, had contributed work to several local and international
publications, including Le Monde, The Guardian, and Agence France-Presse. His website chronicles his work from some of the world's most
dangerous countries for journalists, including Libya, Haiti, Somalia, Brazil,
and Kenya.

Forces on all sides of
the Syrian conflict that have tried to censor news coverage through violence have
won a round. By sharply increasing the risk for reporters covering the civil
war they have forced news organizations to think twice before sending their
staff to the battlefields. In a worrying development they even have led a
leading UK newspaper, the Sunday Times,
for which Marie Colvin was on assignment when she was killed last year in Homs,
to refuse photographs submitted by freelancers.

Syrian violence contributed to a sharp rise in
the number of journalists killed for their work in 2012, as did a series of
murders in Somalia. The dead include a record proportion of journalists who
worked online. A CPJ special report

Syrian leaders tried to impose a media blackout on the country's civil war. They failed. As CPJ's Dahlia El-Zein reports, foreign journalists responded by smuggling themselves into the country, while Syrians picked up cameras and uploaded videos online. They all did so at extreme risk. (4:13)